UN hails RM22.53bil in new pledges to boost global connectivity

The ITU has been leading efforts to rectify a situation where a third of the world's population has never connected to the Internet, and is being left out of the advantages that digitalisation can provides. — Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash

GENEVA: The United Nations said on May 27 that it had raked in US$4.8bil (RM22.53bil) in new pledges towards closing the global digital divide, bringing total pledges to over US$50bil (RM234.7bil).

Around 2.6 billion people, or one-third of the global population, remained offline in 2023, according to data from the International Telecommunications Union, the UN's telecoms agency.